US Construction—Infrastructure Focus

US Construction—Infrastructure Focus forecasts national and state spending on infrastructure construction. We examine more than 30 categories of spending, including transportation, highways, power, waste disposal, and water supply. Use our client website, MyInsight, to access and download our spreadsheets and our executive summary, which encapsulates the main findings, notable events, and trends critical to the industry.

Benefits:

US Construction—Infrastructure Focus enables you to:

• Anticipate demand for specific infrastructure categories and building materials 
• Identify states with pending infrastructure projects 
• Size markets and calculate penetration rates 
• Better align your business plan

• Quarterly updates containing ten-year forecasts 
• National and state coverage 
• Articles on timely transportation or highway construction events 
• Over 30 infrastructure categories: airports, wastewater plants, pavements, street lights and many more 
• Executive summary of economic and policy developments critical to the industry 
• Electronic delivery

Coverage of the following categories:

• Highways and Streets 
  • Federal highways and streets 
  • State/local highways and streets 
    • Pavements 
    • Bridges 
    • Lighting 
    • Rest facilities 
    • Retaining walls 
    • Tunnels 
    • Toll/weights 
    • Maintenance buildings 
  • Private highways and streets 
• Transportation 
  • Federal transportation 
  • State/local land transportation 
  • Mass transit 
    • Passenger terminals 
    • Railroad 
    • Vehicle services/freight 
  • State/local water transportation 
    • Docks/marinas 
    • Dry-dock/marine terminals 
    • Other 
  • State/local air transportation 
    • Terminals 
    • Runways 
    • Other 
  • Private transportation 
    • Private land transportation 
      • Private rail 
    • Private air transportation 
    • Private water transportation 
• Power 
  • Public 
  • Private (electricity) 
• Sewer 
  • Federal sewage and waste disposal 
  • State/local sewage and waste disposal 
    • State/local drywaste 
      • Drywaste plant 
      • Drywaste line/drain 
      • Other 
    • State/local wastewater 
      • Wastewater plant 
      • Wastewater line/pump station 
    • Private sewage and waste disposal 
  • Water Supply 
    • Federal water supply 
    • State/local water supply 
      • State/local water supply plant 
      • State/local water supply pump station 
      • Other
      • Private water supply

Frequency and Horizon

• 10-year forecast horizon
• Annual and quarterly frequency data
• Updated quarterly
• Historical data back to 1993

Historic Data Sources:

• US Census Bureau

Related Historical Data Available for Purchase

• US Industry coverage includes series history as far back as 1942 for concepts including:
  • Demographic statistics
  • Government finance at state and local levels
  • Housing and construction
  • Labor market
  • Merchandise trade
• Detailed macroeconomic database for Canadian and province-level data
• Detailed US Macroeconomic coverage starts as far back as 1930. Concepts include:
  • Financial indicators: commodities, exchange rate, government bond yields
  • Balance of payments:
    • Current account with goods, services, and income breakdowns, exports/imports of goods and services
    • Financial account: foreign and US owned assets
  • Capital movement of foreign holding and purchases
  • Demographic statistics
  • Government surplus/deficit receipts
  • Housing and construction statistics: Handy-Whitman, home ownership, affordability, mortgage delinquency, new construction (private/public), sales/inventory
  • Industrial output: capacity by sector, gross value, industrial production indices, inventories, orders, NAICS breakdown, semiconductors, shipments
  • Labor market: employment costs, average hours worked with industry breakdown, job openings (JOLTS), participation rates, productivity by sector, earnings
  • Merchandise trade: goods/services balances, by commodity
  • Money and banking: credit, insolvencies, investments, money supply
  • National accounts: gross domestic product by sector (expenditure/income approaches)
  • Prices: consumer, producer, and wholesale by sector breakdown
  • Quarterly financial reports, balance sheet figures
  • Retail trade and wholesale activity
  • Survey and diffusion indices
  • Transportation indices

Our expert team provides an independent, fact-based view of the construction industry, fully supported by our 325+ economists and analysts worldwide with expertise in over 170 industries and 200 countries.

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